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DF General Discussion / Re: Old Computers
« on: July 11, 2008, 09:45:26 pm »
Quote from: Makrond on July 11, 2008, 09:30:08 pm
Quote from: Hanuman on July 11, 2008, 01:36:13 pm
I am definitely going to swap out my P4 chip for my Celron

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!! DON'T DO IT!!!!!!!!!!

Seriously, though, don't. 1.7GHz P4 > 1.8GHz Celeron. Celerons are faulty Pentiums that Intel decided to make a little more money out of by selling them cheap. Which is why everyone in the industry is glad the Celeron finally died.

Don't worry, I actually did a little research after posting that and decided against it after all. I don't have a 1.7GHz P4 though it's a 1.5GHz. After looking up some info on it I realized that the 1.5GHz P4 would actually be better to stick with then the 1.8GHz Celeron. I found out that even though the P4 is only 1.5GHz it technically has more horse power then the Celeron.

Thanks for the warning though.     

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DF General Discussion / Re: Old Computers
« on: July 11, 2008, 04:37:18 pm »
Quote from: Markham on July 11, 2008, 03:14:11 pm
I guess my computer is "old" since the processor type is no longer available at stores, and the last major upgrade was in 2005.  It's a 2.04ghz socket 939 Athalon 64 X2.  If anything, I'll just get the fastest CPU for the board off eBay.  That should give it at least another three years before I have to do another major upgrade.

Quote from: Duke 2.0 on July 11, 2008, 08:12:39 am

 Lets see...

 AMD Athlon XP 1800+ @ 1.50 GHz with 224 Mb RAM. I get around 30 FPS in a 4x4 start area.

 No Graphics Card. If this thing has one, it isn't specified. Yes, I think it was bought in 1995 or earlier.

That can't possibly be a 1995 computer.  The average processor in 1995 wasn't even 1/10 the speed of what you have in there.

I was just assuming that they meant to say 2005.

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DF General Discussion / Re: Old Computers
« on: July 11, 2008, 01:36:13 pm »
Quote from: Mookie Love on July 11, 2008, 12:34:36 pm
2.00 GHz Celeron with 0.99 GB of RAM
Graphics card is 128 MB.

3x3 starts at 150+FPS (my maximum, any faster and I can't keep up), but I'm at 70-some dwarves now along with probably a literal ton of dogs, and it's hovering around 80, 70 or 60 if I'm doing something big with liquids.

Very cool. That's encouraging to hear how well it runs on that rig. I am definitely going to swap out my P4 chip for my Celeron; Just to get that little extra boost of performance.

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DF General Discussion / Re: New Computer!
« on: July 11, 2008, 01:25:58 pm »
Quote from: Reasonableman on July 11, 2008, 10:23:47 am
Well, how bout you post your specs? I oughta be able to give you a respectable estimate.

Check my thread. My specs are there.

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DF General Discussion / Re: Old Computers
« on: July 11, 2008, 08:59:57 am »
Quote from: Duke 2.0 on July 11, 2008, 08:12:39 am

 Lets see...

 AMD Athlon XP 1800+ @ 1.50 GHz with 224 Mb RAM. I get around 30 FPS in a 4x4 start area.

 No Graphics Card. If this thing has one, it isn't specified. Yes, I think it was bought in 1995 or earlier.

Only 224MB of RAM? According to the DF web site it claims you need 512MB, minimum. Well, now we know better.

I really appreciate all the feedback on this topic so far. Thank you, everyone.

Keep it coming, this could be a handy reference for people that want to know if it will run on their machine.

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DF General Discussion / Re: New Computer!
« on: July 11, 2008, 05:05:33 am »
Quote from: Mookie Love on July 11, 2008, 04:50:03 am
Quote from: Frobozz on July 09, 2008, 07:14:25 pm
Quote from: Xehon on July 06, 2008, 09:13:57 am
What's your hardware? My old A64 3200+ got me around 50fps, but it burned through. Now i'm on a old laptop, but this one gets me barely 30fps. I'm planing to buy a A64 LE, as DF only uses one core and its helluva cheap.
Assuming he bought OEM, its probably a Core 2 Duo. Dell and pretty much most of the OEMs that I've looked over recently haven't even bothered with any processors below Pentium Dual-Core. I don't remember the last time I've seen them selling Celeron processors with their system.

It says Celeron right on the front. I had a limited budget.
I didn't check out the specifics. It runs better than my old one, so I'm happy.


Hmm, Celeron eh? Would you mind posting some more specs in my thread? http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=20320.0

Processing speed, internal memory, graphics card? It would be helpful for me. I am trying to figure out if my computer I am working on will be able to run it at a good pace.

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DF General Discussion / Re: Old Computers
« on: July 11, 2008, 03:09:51 am »
Well my graphics card is pretty decent and I have updated drivers for it so hopefully it won't be super slow. The computer I am on now has a 1.7GHz Celeron with a piece of crap on board Intel video card. Last time I tried running DF on this one it was getting between 10 and 30 fps I believe.

I also have a spare 1.8GHz Celeron processor that I am thinking of slapping into my computer's motherboard in place of the P4. I don't know if that would make any big difference in performance or not though.

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DF General Discussion / Old Computers
« on: July 11, 2008, 01:17:16 am »
I have a pretty old computer that is being cleaned up at the moment. I plan to install DF on it once it is fixed.

It is a 1500MHz Pentium 4, 768MB DRAM and a 128MB ATI Radeon 9250.

Does anyone else have a similar set up? If so how does DF run on your machine? 

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